Subjectivity Without Self
This chapter concerns the first period of Sartre’s oeuvre, concerning the works written before the Second World War. It begins with Sartre’s early project of banishing all contents from consciousness. Sartre conceives the phenomenological notion of intent
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Sartre on Subjectivity and Selfhood
Simon Gusman
Sartre on Subjectivity and Selfhood The Self as a Thing Among Things
Simon Gusman Philosophy Radboud University Nijmegen Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Preface
This book examines the notions of subjectivity and selfhood that are developed by Jean-Paul Sartre throughout his oeuvre. The guiding thread of this analysis is the claim Sartre makes in many of his works that the Self is “a thing among things”. His thoughts concerning subjectivity and selfhood change and evolve throughout his career, and I aim to uncover the nuances of these developments. The background of this research is the critical reception of Sartre’s philosophy. Sartre received much criticism from both his contemporaries and the succeeding generations of philosophers, and the focus of this criticism often concerns the role of subjectivity in his thought. Sartre is accused of defending an outdated view of the Subject – a being which has a perspective on and/or agency in the world. His critics thought he granted too much power and autonomy to human subjectivity. In spite of such earlier criticisms of his work, in more recent years Sartre’s ideas concerning subjectivity have – alongside those of other phenomenologists – become a source of inspiration for analytic philosophers of mind. In debates in which human subjectivity has often been dismissed and reduced to mere physical activity of
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